Web3 Licensing and Regulatory Compliance Specialist

About the role

In this role, you will deliver advisory projects focused on licensing and regulatory compliance for various digital asset businesses, including token issuers and VASPs. Your work will involve translating regulatory requirements into practical governance and operational controls while coordinating with stakeholders and regulators.

You will also conduct regulatory research and contribute to the development of compliance tools and workflows. This position requires collaboration with various teams within CertiK to enhance service offerings and ensure that client delivery aligns with regulatory expectations, particularly in the EU and UAE.

Skills that matter here

• regulatory compliance: This role requires hands-on experience with Web3 licensing processes and knowledge of regulatory requirements in the digital asset space.
• communication: Strong written and spoken English skills are essential for interacting with clients and regulators.
• regulatory research: You will analyze and monitor Web3 regulations to inform compliance strategies and service development.

Who this role suits

• Candidates with 2-4 years of experience in digital asset regulatory compliance or related fields.
• Individuals who can effectively interpret regulations and map them to operational controls.
• Professionals with a collaborative mindset who can work in a distributed team environment.
• Those with additional language skills or relevant qualifications will have an advantage.

From the employer

Client Delivery

• Deliver Web3 regulatory advisory projects, including licensing and authorisation readiness, gap assessments, compliance reviews, and implementation support for CASPs, VASPs, token issuers, and other digital-asset businesses.
• Help clients translate regulatory requirements into practical governance, AML and CFT, cybersecurity, technology, and operational controls, drawing on CertiK's wider expertise.
• Support application-related work by coordinating key materials, evidence, stakeholders, and responses to regulators, particularly for European Union and United Arab Emirates processes.
• Present clear findings and recommendations in reports and workshops, and manage delivery across agreed scope, timelines, and follow-up actions.

Regulatory Research and Internal Product and Service Development

• Monitor and analyse Web3 regulation and supervisory expectations across priority jurisdictions, with particular attention to the European Union and the United Arab Emirates.
• Turn regulatory research and client experience into reusable methods, templates, control mappings, knowledge materials, and new or updated regulatory service offerings.
• Work with CertiK's cybersecurity, AML, product, and engineering teams to develop and improve compliance tools and workflows, including requirements definition, regulatory content, and testing.
• Use market developments and client feedback to identify opportunities to improve our tools and services and make delivery more consistent and scalable.

Requirements

• Strong match: Hands-on experience supporting a Web3 licensing or authorisation process for a CASP, VASP, token issuer, or similar digital-asset business. Direct application experience under MiCA, VARA, ADGM FSRA, DFSA, or another European Union or United Arab Emirates regime is especially valuable.
• Experience: Two to four years in digital-asset regulatory compliance, financial-services licensing, legal or compliance operations, consulting, or a related role.
• Web3 knowledge: Practical understanding of blockchain networks, wallets, custody, exchanges, transfers, token issuance, stablecoins, and common digital-asset business models.
• Regulatory knowledge: Working knowledge of governance, operational risk, consumer protection, technology, cybersecurity, and/or AML requirements relevant to digital-asset firms.
• Writing and delivery: Ability to interpret regulation, map obligations to controls, produce clear documentation, and coordinate contributors, evidence, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Communication and collaboration: Professional written and spoken English and the ability to work with clients, subject-matter experts, senior management, and regulators in a distributed team with reliable overlap with CET and CEST business hours.
• Additional qualifications: A relevant legal, compliance, risk, accounting, or information-security qualification or certification, or additional European or Middle Eastern language skills, is an advantage.

What We Offer

• Remote work: Work remotely from Europe or a nearby time zone, with regular overlap with European business hours.
• Competitive compensation: A competitive base salary plus equity or token options where applicable.
• Professional growth: Direct exposure to EU, UAE, and global digital-asset authorisation projects, with support to deepen your Web3 regulatory expertise.
• This role must be performed outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.